Pity the poor MRA meme-makers. It’s hard for them to find real-world images to illustrate their deeply held belief that women in general (and feminists in particular) secretly or not-so-secretly run the world.
Indeed, there seems to be a lot of photographic evidence that supports a rather different conclusion about women and power. Do women run the US congress? Nope.
The Supreme Court? Nope. (Dudes circled for easy reference.)
Corporate Boards of Directors? Nope and nope and nope and nope and nope and nope.
Happily for MRAs there are still some options left – like stock photos.
The word of stock photos is a strange one indeed, one filled with women laughing alone with salad and cheering themselves while crouched on scales in their underwear.
Oh, and did I mention that stock photo sites like to make their pics of women sexxxxayy? And that they seem to have the same confusion between sexy and sexist as Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap?
Indeed, when Cate Savilla of Buzzfeed recently tried some common female-centric search terms on stock photo sites, these were some of the weirdly sexualized pictures that showed up in the results.
Bingo!
Apparently a lot of guys imagine feminism as some kind of session with a dominatrix. Never mind that in the real world, men getting trod upon on by women in high heels often pay quite handsomely for the experience. No, in the minds of the world’s MRAs this is a perfect image to represent the jackbooted high heeled stormtroopers of feminazi-ism.
Attach a vaguely threatening caption, and the URL for A Voice for Men, and you’ve got yourself a meme!
H/T — MUH Men’s Rights Activism and Philip Rose
UPDATE: I just realized that I featured this meme before. Well, the post still stands.
“Do you really think we can fix this while always being polite and watching our “tone”?”
Mras, if feminists have nothing legitimate to say stop borrowing their (more well-placed) arguments about tone-policing.
You know what? There is no good way to say MRA ideas because MRA ideas are horrible. They are usually held by horrible people who say them in the most offensive way possible, but that isn’t the actual problem.
Hey guys. *waves* Been a few months, huh? I heard things maybe got a bit better here, decided to stick my head in.
Also, it’s so weird that the stereotype of feminists are people in ugly shoes, but the face-stomping pics are never Crocs or Doc Martens or something. I guess they need to insure it’s a LADY shoe with a LADY foot inside. Otherwise people might get the wrong idea.
Also, we’ve HAD very polite, civil MRAs come here. The problem wasn’t their tone. Their problem was they were advocating horrible misogyny. You can paint a turd gold, but it’s still a turd.
Kakanian | February 21, 2015 at 5:12 pm
What honestly makes me giggle about the whole “High heels are for wimmens!” argument is that they were originally intended for men:
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/06/high-heels-were-popular-among-men-before-women/
And now look at us, stealing men’s fashions from the mens. Misandry!
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What really gets me about that first image, and someone else has mentioned this already: Is that the moment a feminist isn’t anything but goddamned saintly, the MRAs cry about how terrible we are. (And use stock images of men who may or may not be in the middle of a session with their dominatrix to do so.)
But, as per the usual: “Do as we say, not as we do!”
I still think it is because the MRA meme-ists don’t know where to look to find images of women that are sexualized, which tells you a lot about their browsing habits.
RE: wordsp1nner
A lot of them don’t even seem to realize what sexualization IS. NWO certainly didn’t!
Welcome back LBT! Hope you stick around.
To be fair, NWOSlave didn’t understand math, what an alphabet was, or “zero-sum game”, so sexualization was in good company there.
And welcome back!
RE: WWTH
Hey! I really hope so too. I’ve really missed you guys, and was glad to hear some changes had been made. In honor of Mammoth and Unimaginative, I come bearing a story about a MRA supervillain.
RE: wordsp1nner
Oh, NWO. Your name is digitally immortalized among the glimmering stars of the Internet, like the ooba-chaka baby and Foamy the Squirrel. Never forget, never surrender!
I’m watching the 90s Secret Garden movie. Thrilling Saturday night! Anyway,the pre life lessons Colin reminds me of MRAs.
NWO had something to do with…dairy? Or is that another troll?
LBT
Hi! ::waves:: We missed you too!
Yep, NWO was (at least by repute) a milking machine technician.
Welcome back, LBT!
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Welcome back, LBT! How are you doing?
Aw, thanks guys. Y’all’re the best.
Also, Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Disney flick, katz. BEST gif!
RE: childrenofthebroccoli
I’m doing… pretty good! We’re working on a low-res horror computer game about multiplicity. We’ve had a few bulk orders for our comics in Kansas and Texas, which is really exciting. And we’re moving back home to Boston, which I am REALLY looking forward to.
So that’s the good stuff. Less good is that it turns out our memory was playing a MASSIVE shell game with even more rape and trauma than I thought. We’re working through it though, and holding steady. Who knows, maybe Kid will even comment here sometimes. She’s all about the snark, as katz can attest.
It’s the same bloody show everytime we experience a economic recession – some part of the middle class gets spooked and start looking for scapegoats….Choosing 50% of mankind to blame is NOT the most trustworthy way to do it…
So, apparently, THIS feminism (according to MRAs:)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6g2mvItp4&w=560&h=315%5D
Fascinating…
@schwadevivre
Crap! My HTML-fu has failed me. *facepalms at self forever*
RE: PussyPowerTantrum
…tumblr? Don’t keep me in suspense! *laughs*
lkeke35. 😀
Not only are they morons, they are also hypocrites. For example, they seems to be angry about how feminism is mainly focused on female issues, even though they know that feminism was created by women for women (even though it does benefit men). And they then go and create a movement that is only focused on men (while actually doing nothing to help men). XD They complain about how feminism is a hate movement and accuse us of misandry , yet they , spout violence and hatred for women on their sites. To the extent that they are labelled AVFM and the Spearhead as a hate sites by the SPLC. They complain about being silenced, yet they fill every article about female issues with misogyny and send rape and death threats to point that their victims have to leave their homes to protect their families (eg Anita Sarkeesian) They point all feminists with the same brush because of a few fringe extremists, and completely ignore the fact that the have got the likes of Paul Elam and Warren Farrell as the face of their movement. They also call male feminists ‘white knights’ and ‘manginas’, yet female MRAs are acceptable.It is ridiculous.
Anyway, here are some memes poking fun at the perceived misandry of feminism by Feminazis for Misandry. XD
I don’t know how to post memes in comments, so I am just going to post their links. Enjoy!
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